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Another fun card  I did this past weekend.  Papers are Jillibean Soup, images are from Papertrey Ink.

Birthday Tea

Papers:  My Mind's Eye

Stamps:  Papertrey Ink

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Finally had a few minutes to work on some cards. I used three dies from Papertrey Ink to do this one.

Fabulous Day

Sentiment and dress form die--Papertrey Ink

Buttons--I Top

Lacey Border--Martha Stewart

Papers--My Mind's Eye

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Spellbinders oval dies

Tea Time

Papers are K & Company

Stamps from Papertrey Ink

Stampin' Up embossing folder

Spellbinders Scallop Oval die



floral floral everywhere

Floral Image:  Just Rite

Gloves and Seed Packet:  Papertrey Ink

Papers:  K and Company

Border Punch:  EK Success

Wedding Card

Here is the third card I cranked out yesterday.  I love all the beautiful prints in the paper pads I got.  PLUS they were on clearance at Michael's, so what more could you ask for!!!!??  The petite rose is made with a Sizzix die.  The tag and sentiment are from Papertrey Ink.

Another New Flower Die

Here's another one of the cards I made this afternoon.

Designer Papers--K and Company

Flower die--Papertrey Ink

Sentiment--Verve

Up Up and Away

Images from Papertrey Ink

Flower Fusion

I really like these little Papertrey Flower Fusion stamps.  They are cute, inexpensive, and there is a matching die that cuts them out.  Stamps with dies are becoming very popular and I'm a big fan. The notebook page is also a Papertrey die.  I printed my own paper for this card too.  It is from NitWit Creations.  The wonderful border is a punch from EK Success.  Gotta LOVE all the fun tools we have for making cards!!!

Soft Colors

Just a quick Monday post because I am dying here of a horrible toothache!! Woke me up in the middle of the night.  The pain meds are making me sleepy, but  not doing  much to ease the pain.  I really don't want to go to the dentist.  It's like taking your car in to have a windshield wiper replaced and then they find thirty other things they suggest need to be repaired. So for today anyway, I will keep taking the meds, hope for the best and sleep.  Hope you enjoy this card.

Stamping Boutique Challenge

I have been having MEGA FUN with the dies that some of the stamp companies have been coming out with.  Being able to "cut out" without having to use a scissors is wonderful!  I went all out on this card.  First of all, I rarely do a "background" other than some pretty designer papers of something  I ran through an embossing folder.  On this card, I used sponged and acloud template to create a sky,  Used to do that in years gone by, so it was a bit of a trip down memory lane. The I combined the cloud die from L'il Inker and some dies from Papertrey to add images to the card.  The Papertrey us the "Out of this World set.  I now have grandsons (after raising four daughters, this is a real treat!) so I now get to make "boy stuff" too!  I am entering this card in a challenge over at

 THE STAMPING BOUTIQUE

They are doing a "Boy Birthday" theme this week and I think this card fits the bill.

Crafty Challenge

I was SO excited to win one of the TOP THREE last week at

THE CRAFTY PAD CHALLENGE BLOGSPOT.  You can see the post if you scroll down.  The challenge was to use something "clear."  This time, the theme is "Gone Fruity."  I know fruit stamps are really popular right now so this is great!  I chose one of my fruit images from Papertrey Ink.  I love it because it comes with a die of the image, which means NO scissors and uneven cuts.

This paper which I happened to have went perfectly with the image too.  Just a clean and simple card.

Papers--Cosmo Cricket

Pear image--Papertrey Ink

Round punches--Stampin' Up

CR84FN Challenge

I love love love this week's colors at CR84FN Color Challenge.  They were so much fun to work with.

Aren't they luscious?  Of course, purples/lavendars being my favorite colors made me just a bit predjudiced!  This is what I came up with this time:

I ran two of the layers through the Cuttlebug in embossing folders to add some texture.  I also sponged the crochet trim with some chalk ink.  I used stamps from Papertrey, and a flower from Prima.  The ribbon punch is Stampin' Up and the corner punch is EK Success.

Wishing You

Papers--Making Memories "English Garden"

Doily Die--Papertrey Ink

Sentiment--Papertrey Ink

Rich, Bold papers

I used some more gorgeous K and Company papers on this card. The colors are so bold and rich and you can almost feel the texture--it looks like fabric. 

The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and the bird is a Stampin' Up die.

The border die and corners are from EK Success and the "ribbon" die is Stampin' Up

A Different Kind of "Sweet"

The beautiful K and Company papers are the centerpiece of this card.  It didn't really need much of an image.  So I used a little Papertrey Ink design, punched with a scalloped punch and layered on a die cut doily which is also from Papertrey.

Another Sweet Card

I used K and Company papers on this card.

The jar and sentiment stamps are from Papertrey Ink. 

I stamped the jar on acetate to give it more of a see-through jar effect.

Berry Sweet

Just fell in love with the fruity stamp sets and dies that Papertrey introduced this month.  Did this card with the strawberry set that I got.

After cutting the berry image out of some Jillibean Soup papers, I cut them again out of some of the coasters that Papertrey sells.  I glued them together to give the berries some great dimension. The little strips of paper are cut from My Mind's Eye paper.

CR84FN Challenge

This week the CR84FN gals used another gorgeous color combination for their challenge.

Such lovely neutrals with a splash of green!  So much fun to work with.  I decided to do a Mother's Day card, as it is fast approaching.  My new Papertrey tag dies and stamps came in the mail today and I was anxious to use them, so I incorporated them into my card. I used an inked Cuttlebug folder to do the front panel of my card.  This is what I came up with. . .

I want to point out the button I used for the center of my Prima flower.  My grandmother used to often remove the buttons on clothes before she threw them out.  When she died, she left behind a tin full of buttons, some of which go back to the 1930's and maybe even further.  My mother gave me a  bag full and I thought it would be cool to use one on my mom's card!  Here is a close-up of the button. . .

I can see why Grandma kept this one!  An early Happy Mother's Day to all you moms and grandmas.